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TRUCK FOR'ELEVATBD CARS.

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Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. ENOS, OF PEABODY, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO MATTHEW H. ROBINSON, OF QUINCY, AND ORLANDO A. FOSTER, OF SALEM, MASS.

TRUCK FOR ELEVATED CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,389, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed April 24, 1885.

T 0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN AUGUSTUS ENOS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peabody, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspending Trucks for Elevated Cars, of which the following is a description.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the truck with parts of the same broken away. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a sectionalplan view of one of the castings E.

The object of my invention is to provide a suspending truck for sustaining passengercars in elevated position above the sidewalk or curb; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts designed to meet the requirements of such transportation in a substantial, smooth, and practical manner, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, A represents an elevated stringer or beam, of wood, which is sustained upon a trestle-work mounted at intervals upon vertical posts or standards (not shown) at the edge of the sidewalk. On top of the stringer A is mounted the continuous rail B, upon which runs the flanged wheels 0 C. These wheels are two in number, and are connected together in the form of a truck, as follows: D D are two angle-bars, which are arranged parallel to each other, and at their ends are connected together by cast-iron brackets E E, one at each end. These brackets have a face, a, that is parallel with one of the angle-bars, and Wing portions 1) I), extend ing divergently from the sides of the same across to and bolted to the other angle-bar. To the faces a of each bracket E are bolted the pendent hanger-bars F F, which extend down to and are attached to the car to be supported.

To complete the truck, the brace-bars c extend from the ends of the angle-bars down to a point below the axles of the flanged Wheels, and are there secured to or form a part of the lower horizontal brace-rods, c. On each oneofthe solid axles of the wheels 0 a gear-wheel, G, is rigidly secured, which Serial No. 163,311. (No model.)

is adapted to receive motion from a motor on the car through a chain, K, or otherwise, and which by rotating the wheels 0 cause the truck and the suspended car to travelon the rail B.

Extending from the two horizontal bracerods 0 c to the angle-bars D D above there are at each wheel four vertically-arranged fixed bolts or standards, H, on which is guided up and down the journal-plate I, having the usual journal-box and the oil-cup. One pair of the standards H extends up to and is bolted to a cross-bar, f, extending from one side to the other of the bracket E, and the other pair of standards H extends up to an angle-plate, g, bolted to the side of the au gle-bar D on that side. Upon each of the four standards II is arranged a spiral spring, J, which at their lower ends bear against the journal-plate I, and at their upper ends bear, respectively, against the cross-barf and the angle-bar g.

With this construction it will be seen that the weight of the car on the hanger-bars F F is transmitted through the springs J to the wheel, so as to render its suspension elastic, and make the car ride smoothly, and the brackets E serve to stiffen and support the hanger thereon.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A hanger-truck for asuspended car, consisting of the combination of two wheels, 0, the horizontal bars D D, brace-bars 0 c, brackets E, bolted and extending across both the bars D D, journal-bearings for the wheels, and hanger-bars F, depending from the brackets, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A hanger-truck for a suspended car, consisting of the combination of two wheels, 0, the horizontal bars D D, brace-bars c c, brackets E, extending across and bolted to both bars D D, the hangerbars F, attached thereto, the standards H, extending from bars D to c, the journal-plates I, guided on said bars, and the springs J, wound around the standards H and disposed between the journal-plate and the upper bars, D, substantially: springs J, and gear-wheel G, with chain K, as and for the purpose described. substantially as shown, and for the purpose 3. A hanger-truck consisting of the comdescribed. bination of two wheels, 0, horizontal bars 5 D D and c c, brackets E, extending across both bars D D, the hanger-bar F, attached thereto, the standards H, journal-plate T,

JOHN A. ENOS. Witnesses:

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